committal

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of entrusting: committal of the property to an attorney.

n. The act or an instance of committing to confinement.

n. The act of pledging oneself to a particular view or position: articulated her strong committal to world peace.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of entrusting something to someone.

n. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.

n. The act of perpetrating an offence.

n. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

adj. Of or relating to a committee.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of committing, in any of the senses of the verb; commitment; commission: as, the committal of a trust to a person, of a body to the grave, of a criminal to prison; the or a committal (compromising, betrayal, exposure) of one's self.

I found it out quite by accident — a few words dropped into a letter, a corroboration of the fact and further committal, a protracted defence of your position, running through a correspondence of over a year, and, finally, a face-to-face declaration.

General Folsom reasoned that similar attempts to open communication were being made by the authorities all the way across the continent, but he was non-committal as to whether or not he thought the attempt would succeed.

The tobacco and trade goods were brought from the store-room by two house-boys and turned over to the chief of Balesuna village, who accepted the additional reward with a non-committal grunt and went away down the path to his canoes.